Desk for hotel-registers.



(Application filed Mat. 27, 1899.)

Patented Sept. l9, I899.

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No. 633,!56. Patented Sept. l9, I899. L. J. REICHEL.

DESK FOR HOTEL REGISTERS.

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LOUIS J. REIOIIEL, OF EAST DUBUQUE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THE'TELEGRAPH JOB PRINTING COMPANY, OF DUBUQUE, IOWA.

DESK FOR HOTEL-REGISTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,156, dated September 19, 1899.

Application filed March 27, 1899. Serial No. 710,575. (No model.)

To all whom i m y concern: cal section of one of the standards for sus- Be it known that I, LOUIS J. REIOHEL, a cititaining the rod to which the advertising-case zen of the United States, residing at East Duis attached. buque, in the county of Jo Daviess and State Like figures of reference denote corre- 55 of Illinois, have invented certain new and usesponding parts in each of the drawings.

f ul Improvements in Desks for Hotel-Regis- Referring to the drawings, 1 represents the ters; and I do hereby declare the following to base of. the turn-table which rests upon legs be a full, clear, and exact description of the 2. To this is pivoted the upper portion 4 of invention, such as will enable others skilled in the turntable by the pivot-pin 5. The plate 60 the art to which it appertains to make and use 4 has a groove (3, running entirely around in the same. the under side of the same, in' which the balls Myinvention relates to hotel-registerdesks, 8 for the ball-bearing of the table travel. It with special reference to those upon which will be seen by having the groove 6 onlyin various advertisements are placed, and the the upper plate that there will be much less 65 :5 object is to provide a desk which shall have friction in the turning of the table and also not only a convenient place for the register will prevent much of the noise consequent on to rest upon, but also a place where advertisethe turning of the desk. ments can be displayed and kept clean and To the top of the plate 4 of the turn-table is always in sight. securely fastened a desk 12 by the brackets 70 It consists of a turn-table upon which is 10and 11. The brackets IObeingmuchlonger placed a desk for holding the register and an than the brackets 11 will hold the desk at a advertising=case secured to the upper end of convenient angle for writing, and as the the desk and adapted to rest on one page of brackets are secured to the plate 4 of the desk the register and also to be shifted from one 12 the desk 12 will always maintain the same 75 side to the other and rest upon the opposite angle in whatever direction the desk may be page of the register. turned. This desk 12 is preferably made of It further consists in a removable heading a single board covered with cloth or some forthe register,upon which maybe printed the other textile fabric, and around the outer name of the hotel, of the proprietor,'and other edges of both sides and front may be secured 80 3e matter usually printed upon the heading of .an ornamental molding 13, made of wood or each page of hotel-registers, and made adj ustmetal. able, so as to rest across the head of registers Atthe opposite corners of the upperend of of different thickness. the desk 12 are fastened sockets 14 by bolt- In order to more fully explain the manner ing the arm 15 of the socket 14 to the under in which my desk is constructed, its mode of side of the desk 12. Into these sockets 14 operation, and how these objects with others are removably placed the standards 16. of less moment are accomplished, attention (Shown in Fig. 7.) These standards are prois called to the following specification and vided with holes 18 and 19. Into holes 18 are drawings accompanying the same. inserted, preferably, a square rod 20, having 0 1) Figure 1 is a plan view of the desk, showrounded ends, so that it can be partially reing the advertisement-case resting upon one volved, and to which the advertising'case 22 side of the desk. Fig. 2 is aside View of the is loosely fastened in such a manner that it desk with the ad vertising-case and head-plate may be moved along upon the rod 20 between closed down. Fig. 3 i'saside view of the desk the two standards 1b. The advertising-case 5 4 5 with the advertising-case open and head-plate 22 is made of a frame 23, of ornamented metal, raised. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the under about the length of a register to be used side of the desk, showing bottom of turn-ta ble therewith and of the width of one page of the and mode of fastening the desk to the turnregister. The under side of this frame 23 table. Fig. 5 is a detail and enlarged view may be covered by a thin board or sheet I00 of one side, showing part in section. Fig. 6 metal, oramirror facing downward may form is a front View of the desk. Fig. '7 is a verti the back of the fra1ne,'and' upon the same are placed the sheets upon which advertisements are printed. For the purpose of keeping the advertisements clean and free from blots a glass is placed above them. This case is attached to the rod 20 by the loops 28. In the hole 19 is inserted a rod 50, to which is rigidly attached the head-plate :31. For the purpose of raising the head-plate 31 whenever the ad vert-ising-case 22 is raised, there is attached to one end of the rod 30a hook 33, and to the rod 20 is rigidly attached another hook 35, and as the show-case 22 is raised the rod 20 will be turned and will force the hook 35 into an engagement with the hook and raise the head-plate 31, as shown in Fig. 3.

The man nerof using my device is substantially as follows: Starting with the desk, as shown in Fig. 2, the operator raises the case 92, and the hook 35 engages with the hook 33 and lifts the head-plate 31 until it has the appearance shown in Fig. The open register, which may beany form of blank book conveniently ruled for that purpose, is placed upon the desk 12, with its upper end against or near the rod 20. It will be remembered that as the standards 16 are loosely inserted in the sockets 14 they will readily adapt the plate 31 and the case 22 to registers of different thicknesses and both rest upon the register when they are closed down. The operator then closes down the case 22 until it rests upon and covers one page, say the right page, of the register, leaving the other half for the registration of names of the guests. At the satne time if the case is lowered the head-plate 31 will also be lowered and rest upon the upper end of the book. Upon this head-plate is impressed the name of the hotel and the proprietor thereof and all other printed matter usual upon the head of each page of a register and when it is closed down upon the register will represent the appearance of the top or head of the register having the names of the hotel and the proprietor, &c., thereon. It will be seen by having impressed upon the head-plate the above that it will serve for all registers without any cost of printing upon the upper end of each page of the register. \Vhen the left-hand page is filled with the names of guests, the case 22 is raised and shoved along on the rod 20 until it reaches the plate 16 of the right-hand side and then is lowered to rest upon the left-hand page of the register, leaving the right-hand page free to be registered upon. In this way the advertisements placed upon the case 22 will always be either upon one page of the register or the other and always in sight.

\V-henever there is a desire to have a change in the advertising, the glass can be removed and a new advertising-sheet placed in the frame of the case 22 and the glass reinstated.

llaving now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by letters Iatent, is-

1. In a desk for hotel-registers, a desk, a rod adjustably attached to the upper end of the desk, and an advertising-case loosely attached to said rod and adapted to be shifted from one side to the other of the desk, as and for the purposes shown.

2. In a desk for hotel-registe rs, a desk, sockets attached to the opposite corners of the upper end of the desk, standards adjustably fitting into said sockets, a rod uniting said standards and an advertising-case loosely attached to said rod, whereby the case can be shifted along said rod from one side to the other of the desk, as and for the purposes shown.

3. In a desk for hotel-registers, a desk, at head-plate adjustably attached to the upper end of the desk, and an advertising-case adjustably attached to the upper end of the desk, and adapted to be shifted from one side to the other of the desk as and for the purposes shown.

4. A desk for hotel-registers, consisting of a turn-table, a desk attached to the turn-table, and an advertising-case attached to the upper end of the desk and adapted to be shifted from one side to the other ofthe desk.

5. A desk for hotel-registers, consisting of a turn-table, a desk attached upon said turntable, and a head-plate adjustably attached to the upper end of the desk, and adapted to rest on the upper end of open registers of different thicknesses, as and for the purposes shown.

6. A desk for hotel-registers, consisting of a turn-table having ball-bearings, a desk secured at an angle to said turn-table, a headplatc adjustably attached to the upper end of said desk, and an advertising-case adjustably attached to the upper end of the said desk and adapted to be shifted from one side to the other of the desk, as and for the purposes shown.

7. A desk for hotel-registers, consisting of a turn-table, the upper plate of which is grooved on its underside,ball-bearings traveling in said groove and upon the lower plate, a desk secured at an angle to said turn-table, a head-plate adjustably attached to the end of the said desk, sockets in the corners of said desks, standards in said sockets, a rod connecting said standards, and an advertisingcase loosely fastened to the rod and adapted to be shifted from one side to the other of the desk, as and for the purposes shown.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

LOUIS J. REICHEL.

Witnesses:

M. M. CADY, 'Jnos. M. Inisn. 

